Today is the second day of my favorite conferences of the year!  INJOY Stewardship Solutions has dispatched to attend the Orange and ReThink Leadership Conference in Atlanta, GA.  This event contains the most relevant church leadership content I annually receive.  It’s just an amazing conference!!

The afternoon’s breakout speakers were Carey Nieuwhof and Brad Lomenick.  Their subject was current leadership trends.  These two guys are on the cutting edge of leadership and know what they are talking about.

Before getting to their thoughts, the team at INJOY Stewardship wanted you to have a FREE resource.  Click HERE or on the image below to download your copy of The Millennial Handbook: 16 Ways To Engage Millennials On Stewardship.  Some resources need no explanation!

The following are 41 Leadership Quotes And Lessons from their informative session:

  1. “How are we allowing young leaders to step up way sooner, way faster, and way earlier than they should?” – BL
  2. “They (people under 30) want to be led. But lead your team like they want to be led, not how you like to be led.” – BL
  3. “The challenge with working with millennials is work patterns have changed… Most people under 30 consider they work for themselves. Most employers get frustrated with that.  Or you can cooperate with that.” – CN
  4. “The internet has created a level playing field.” – CN
  5. “You can cooperate or compete with young leaders.” – CN
  6. “If you want eagles you raise the ceiling.” – Brian Houston
  7. “He (Andy Stanley) led Reggie (Joiner) by letting Reggie lead himself.” – CN
  8. “Do you want employees or do you want leaders?” – CN
  9. “If your culture is built on execution, your people will self-select whether it is for them or not.” – BL
  10. “Church staff tend to be lazy or workaholics.” – Tony Morgan
  11. “I’ve seen people who don’t work at coffee shops.They just go to coffee shops.” – CN
  12. “I don’t know how to coach drive if someone doesn’t have drive.” – CN
  13. “When you’re in startup mode, you better have some executors.” – BL
  14. “Culture is fundamentally shifting.” – CN
  15. “The means of production were chained to a desk…You are carrying your office now in your pocket.” – CN
  16. “Are you paying people to show up or paying people to produce?” – CN
  17. “You are managing a process or managing an outcome.” – CN
  18. “You have to be congruent in managing yourself and managing your team.” – BL
  19. “You measure on results. Be clear on what you want them to do.  Follow up on the results.” – BL
  20. “We are gaming our world… Competition is now just part of our culture.” – BL
  21. “Every organization has a culture.” – CN
  22. “One of our values is err on the side of generosity.” – CN
  23. “If you don’t live it (mission) out, no one is ever going to do it… Positional influence is dead.” – BL
  24. “Your entire leadership posture must be ‘I trust you. I believe in you.’” – BL
  25. “You’ve got to be vulnerable. You’ve got to be transparent.” – BL
  26. “If you’re over 40, you have to become a constant student.” – CN
  27. “Work is going virtual.” – CN
  28. “25 years from now our kids are going to look at office buildings and go, ‘People used to work in there?’” – CN
  29. “We have mediocrity.” – CN
  30. “You are the guide. The people are the hero.” – BL
  31. “You’re trying to sell, as a pastor, the problem your solving, not the product you’re creating.” – BL
  32. “You’re trying to build a lifestyle idea, not building a product.” – BL
  33. “What’s the ultimate pain point you’re trying to solve at your church.” – BL
  34. “Deliver what people need to hear in a way they want to hear it.” – CN
  35. “I’m running into more and more millennials taking over something from someone whose been there 30, 40, 50 years ago… There is no success without succession.” – CN
  36. “Why are too many people Brett Favre, 2 years too long? Two reasons – financial and they fear their best days are behind them.” – CN
  37. “Everybody has to work on succession. Successful organization do this at every level.” – BL
  38. “You should go out on top.  When the trajectory is up and to the right, that is when you exit.” – CN
  39. “Public presence.  Private absence.  I disappeared (when I transitioned from Lead Pastor to Teaching Pastor) so all the staff would look at Jeff (Brodie).” – CN
  40. “No public or private criticism.  All of my thoughts go directly to Jeff.” – CN
  41. “Our leadership legacy is defined by how it grows when we’re gone.” – BL

What an incredible way to start the day!  Information will be coming fast and furious.

Once again, the team at INJOY Stewardship wants you to have a FREE resource.  Click HERE or on the image to the left to download your copy of The Millennial Handbook: 16 Ways To Engage Millennials On Stewardship.

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